{"id":431,"date":"2013-10-15T23:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-10-15T23:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:45:04","slug":"when-i-was-but-a-lad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/when-i-was-but-a-lad\/","title":{"rendered":"When I was but a lad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excerpt from <strong>Shards<\/strong>, WIP.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was but a lad. My cat killed a rat. The rat was left outside the door. I stepped outside the door, wearing no shoes, and ended up with the rat attached to the bottom of my foot. I hopped about on one foot. The other foot, with rat attached, hanging in the air. The rat, dead though it was, would not let go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from Shards, WIP. When I was but a lad. My cat killed a rat. The rat was left outside the door. I stepped outside the door, wearing no shoes, and ended up with the rat attached to the bottom of my foot. I hopped about on one foot. The other foot, with rat attached, hanging in the air. 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